USPTO Patents Application 10610949

32692

Customer Number

Patent

Case No.: 58450USQ02

IN THE UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE

First Named Inventor:
Application No.:
Filed:
Title:

Gason, Samuel J.

10/610949 Confirmation No,: 4

July 1,2003

Sample Processing Device with Unvented Channel

Response to Notice to File Corrected Application Papers

Mail Stop Issue Fee - Amendment
Commissioner for Patents
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Dear Sir:

This is in response to the Notice to File Corrected Application Papers dated February 8,
2007, in the above-identified application.

United States Patent and Trademark Office

Commissioner for Patents
United States Patent and Trademark Office
P.O. Box 1450
Alexandria, VA 22313-1450
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Serial No. : 10/610,949

Applicant : Gason et al.

Filing Date : 7/1/03

Date Mailed : 2/8/07

NOTICE TO FILE CORRECTED APPLICATION PAPERS
Notice of Allowance Mailed

This application has been accorded an Allowance Date and is being prepared for issuance, The
application, however, is incomplete for the reasons below.

Applicant is ghon ««< Ua>> from the mail date of this Notice within which to correct the
informalities indicated beiow. If the informality pertains to the abstract, specification (including
claims) or drawings, the informality must be corrected with an amendment in compliance with 37
CFR 1.121 (or, if the application is a reissue application, 37 CFR 1 .173). Such an amendment
may be filed after payment of the issue fee if limited to correction of informalities noted herein.
See Waiver of 37 CFR1.312 for Documents Required by the Office of Patent Publication, 1280
Off. Gaz. Patent Office 918 (March 23, 2004). In addition, if the informality is not corrected until
after payment of the issue fee, for purposes of 35 U.S.C. 154(b)(l)(iv), "all outstanding
requirements" will be considered to have been satisfied when the informality has been corrected.
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Application No, 16 Q d^tl Swings filed 3 8 "6^

IDENTIFICATION OF DRAWING DEFICIENCIES

□ There is a hole or the image thereof within the illustration. FIG(s)

□ The character of the lines, numbers and letters is poor. -FIG(s)

□ The illustration is penetrated or traversed by a solid or broken line that is not intended to be part
of the drawing, such as a dark line caused by a flaw in the copying process.
FIG(s)

□ An ink stamp or an image obscures part of the illustration. FlG(s)

□ The drawing is marred by black smudges, obliterations, or fax/copier marks.
FIG(s)

0 Figure numbers are duplicated or missing. FlG(s).

□ Numbers, letters, or reference characters in the drawing have been crossed out by hand or are
illegibly handwritten. FIG(s)__

□ The drawing's background shows that the original drawing was made on graph paper or other
paper with a pattern or decoration. FIG(s)

□ The FIG. number label is placed in a location that causes the drawing to be read upside down.

Floes')

□ Data, a reference number, or part of the drawing is truncated or missing.
FIG(s)

□ The drawing is continued onto a second page (or more) without proper labeling under 37 CFR
1.84(u)(l). FIG(s)

O The drawing and/or the FIG. label contain(s) foreign language. FlG(s)_ _

V Color drawings are present in this application but the following 37 CFR 1 .84(a) requirements have
^ not been met*:

t Petition filed
Petition fee
3 sets of color drawings
Color drawing paragraph

*If color drawings are not elected, then applicant must respond so slating Also, references to
color drawings in the specification, if any, must be amended.